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sherlock60Welcome once again to my poetry page!
I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.
And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.
Snake Oil, Snake Bite
By Dilruba Ahmed
Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: nonsense verse.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is whimsical and humorous in tone… In some cases, the humor of nonsense verse is based on the incompatibility of phrases which make grammatical sense but semantic nonsense at least in certain interpretations, as in the traditional:
'I see' said the blind man to his deaf and dumb daughter
as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all… Other nonsense verse uses muddled or ambiguous grammar as well as invented words… Some simply illustrate nonsensical situations… Some nonsense verse simply presents contradictory or impossible scenarios in a matter-of-fact tone...
Here is my example:
I've painted Mr. Holmes all red.
A good detective should be bright.
And now I'll wash my clothes in gin.
It's sure to leave my corsets tight.
But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Sussex Vampire in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Warm regards,
Mrs. Hudson
I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.
And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.
By Dilruba Ahmed
Thank you so much to Rachel. And I thought we could also have a go at a new poetry form: nonsense verse.
Wikipedia gives this definition:
Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is whimsical and humorous in tone… In some cases, the humor of nonsense verse is based on the incompatibility of phrases which make grammatical sense but semantic nonsense at least in certain interpretations, as in the traditional:
'I see' said the blind man to his deaf and dumb daughter
as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all… Other nonsense verse uses muddled or ambiguous grammar as well as invented words… Some simply illustrate nonsensical situations… Some nonsense verse simply presents contradictory or impossible scenarios in a matter-of-fact tone...
Here is my example:
A good detective should be bright.
And now I'll wash my clothes in gin.
It's sure to leave my corsets tight.
But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Sussex Vampire in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-10 08:26 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-11 08:52 am (UTC)That we should have hair
And Lizards should not
If I was a lizard
I'd hire a great wizard
And alter the plot
Just sayin'...
Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-11 11:58 am (UTC)Can you begin
To give us hair which is lush
And then what's funny
We'll need some money
To purchase a hair brush
RE: Re: Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-11 12:27 pm (UTC)To recite a short hair growing rhyme
Short curly hair
Needs so much less care
And is quite captivating
When speed dating.
Completely Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-13 09:15 pm (UTC)But I really think we should tell
We are still in need of a comb
And shampoo and conditioner
Is wanted in addition – er
For when lizards have reached home
RE: Completely Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-13 09:45 pm (UTC)Extravagance indeed!
There is no actual need
For such to be offered
To a reptile, thus coiffured.
Shampooed and conditioned curls?
Just for small lizard girls.
Re: Completely Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-14 05:27 pm (UTC)To be chosen above all the rest
His hair should be both tidy and neat
And then on moving down to his feet
He really needs painted nails
Plus manicure and all that entails
RE: Re: Completely Nonsense verse
Date: 2017-04-15 07:08 pm (UTC)A gila hasn't a hope
Of finding a first-class mate,
Or reaching a second date,
If he is busy nail painting
Instead of acquainting
Himself with the queen
Of the reptilian singles' scene.
~0~